Chapter 4 - Entangled

She found herself in a what seemed to be a hospital. And she sat up in the cushiony bed in trance.

It wasn't until a nurse came in that she woke up from her stupor.

She seemed to be shocked as she looked at her. But soon, she seemed to have snapped out of it, and approached her excitedly.

As she was about to ask something to the woman before her, the nurse who's been checking in her monitor suddenly stood in daze.

Her eyes turned dull and she seemed soulless.

Suddenly the woman turned to her direction and spoke.

"Child, you have suffered. The world of the rich is a cruel place, and the gods have seen their suffering children. Therefore, establishing the practice you've been into before. The process have been arduous, but worry not, for from now on, you are free from the shackles that binded you from your previous life. You have been relocated to a place where you deserved to be in. The gods had seen your endurance, and despite your misfortune, you have remained good towards others. And for that you have been granted with a gift. But this gift shall be granted to you only if you promise to live this life and let the past go. Do you accept?"

She was stunned undoubtedly, that has been why she was unable to interrupt this suddenly weird lady before her.

However, as her brain finally processed the words uttered by this lady, she couldn't help but let the tears form a stream down her cheeks as she nodded weakly and covered her mouth to stifle her sobs.

The gods had not forgetten of this child.

....

It was only until later when she heard the gist of the matter — why this host was hospitalised.

This body's boyfriend, although handsome and smart, was actually scorned by the public. Just because of his last name, Ming.

Although he was not a direct descendant from that lineage, he was still affected by the controversies and scandals this Ming family was involved in.

The Mings have been known to be one of the most powerful families in Country A for centuries.

However, as time passed by, what remained of their glorious days, was now a facade. They were drowning in debts.

The previous generations has been overspending. Overtime, their loans grew into large amounts, to the point that their companies' revenues couldn't cover it anymore.

In hopes to continue their family's standing and face in the country, they decided to make use of their connections to build a foundation.

A foundation geared towards helping street kids get themselves a roof above their head, food to eat, clothes to wear, and education to help the country grow into heights.

But this was all a cover. Fifty percent of what they gathered was spent on paying their debts. They were basically using sympathetic people's money, to pay off the aftermath of their generations of overindulgence.

Of course, they used the remaining fifty percent for their foundations' projects, for their unscrupulous activities to remain undetected by the public eye.

Everything was working well for them for years.

However, no secret remains unknown. Someone tipped a news agency, and soon people started to doubt the Ming family.

The people's doubts started to grow even stronger when suddenly pictures of deposit slips to the foundation surfaced the internet, its total amount larger than what the estimated total expenses for projects and initiatives the foundation released to the public.

Soon the head and big figureheads of the family were put into prison in a lifetime sentence as they were proven guilty of their charges — and what followed was the Ming Family's might of hundreds of years, crumbling out of grace. Never to stand back up again.

The remaining descendants were either sold in the red light districts to pay off their debts, died on the slums, thrown on streets, or withdrew from the society in hopes to start anew.

Growing up under the scornful gazes of everyone around him, even as a child who had done nothing to wrong others — he had realized that they only way to keep himself safe was to be strong. Strong enough to be feared by many.

This has been one of the reasons why he had turned himself into a notorious gangster, thriving to be strong, so no one would dare to bully him.

Who would have thought that they would also target her, the girlfriend, who has been kept in the dark by Kevin Ming, in fear that she, Alyssa Lin, won't date him.

They actually planned to kill her by being run by an overspeeding car.

She could have died, if not for the fact that someone had pushed her out of the way in time.

But they couldn't keep their momentum, resulting for the lady who pushed her out of the way to suffer from broken bones on her right arm, and her banging her head on the road — its impact enough to keep her in coma for 7 days.

Her saviour has long been discharged. She had undergone a surgery right after being admitted, and left 3 days later flying towards another city — City F, where she was from. She turned out to be a tourist.

Alyssa Lin didn't even get to say her thanks and farewell to her savior.

What a bummer.

Well, the light of the day is that, at last she get to live another life. She wasn't as unlucky as she thought she was.

Alyssa Lin, I hope your life isn't as messy as mine was.